This song was kind of my theme song when I was fairly sick a few years ago. For me, it sort of captured that yearning to be a part of normal life again. "You want to go out Friday and you want to go forever." I also felt like the lyrics about how "you want to cross your dna with something reptile" expressed a desire to be safe from hurt. And there are a lot of lyrics about wanting to trust in something, but constantly questioning it, which were all emotions that resonated for me at the time.
Anyway, that was just why the song touched a chord for me personally. I always wondered if maybe I was misinterpreting it, though, and seeing a hopeful message when Stipe was really saying something mocking about people who are obsessed with plastic surgery and celebrity. (The lyrics that lean to this interpretation are the lines about "you hope that we are with you / and you hope you're recognized" and the second verse about some mysterious "procedure".)
Ah well, I choose to believe it's a hopeful song. :)
This song was kind of my theme song when I was fairly sick a few years ago. For me, it sort of captured that yearning to be a part of normal life again. "You want to go out Friday and you want to go forever." I also felt like the lyrics about how "you want to cross your dna with something reptile" expressed a desire to be safe from hurt. And there are a lot of lyrics about wanting to trust in something, but constantly questioning it, which were all emotions that resonated for me at the time.
Anyway, that was just why the song touched a chord for me personally. I always wondered if maybe I was misinterpreting it, though, and seeing a hopeful message when Stipe was really saying something mocking about people who are obsessed with plastic surgery and celebrity. (The lyrics that lean to this interpretation are the lines about "you hope that we are with you / and you hope you're recognized" and the second verse about some mysterious "procedure".)
Ah well, I choose to believe it's a hopeful song. :)